social formations

Most modern economic theories look at social formations, like organizations, as products of individuals all acting in their own best interest.

"A revolutionary must infiltrate all social formations including the police.

He has investigated and modeled persistent social formations like persons and organizations.

As in his earlier work the aim is to analyse the levels of social process that constitute social formations.

International economic developments have a central role, but he 'regards the world economy as a system of interacting national social formations'.

The principal distinction that Anderson makes is between capitalism and pre-capitalist social formations:

He looked at social formations ranging from the workplace to urban neighbourhoods to the workers' rural-urban connections.

The first six are about social formations that control us and how our own judgment organizes out experience in ways that limit our actions.

The problem, then, is why one should accept Poulantzas' claim that pertinent effects are a constant feature of capitalist social formations.

One theme which runs through Pouwer's work, both published and unpublished, is the need for new approaches to understanding the social formations of other peoples.

The colonial state did indeed become 'overdeveloped', but because of the need to subordinate non-feudal, pre-capitalist social formations.

Identity and cultural assurance will become access to the e-data of your ancestors or that of the cultures and social formations with which you identify.

Berne's concern with the role of mortido in individuals and groups, social formations and nations, arguably continued throughout all his later writings.

How Social Formations Emerge.

'In point of fact, the hegemonic function has often been distinct from the governing class or function, and is so today in certain social formations.'

Bands comprise small, mobile, and fluid social formations with weak leadership, that do not generate surpluses, pay no taxes and support no standing army.

Feminist psychologists must address the social formations within which subjectivities are expressed, but they need to do so in a more careful, socially and historically detailed way.

Another criticism of constructivism is that it holds that the concepts of two different social formations be entirely different and incommensurate.

The author surveys theories of social change and underlines the key role of production techniques together with climatic conditions in shaping ancient social formations.

'Marx founded a new science: the science of the history of social formations, or the science of history.

ELLEN, Roy (1982) Environment, subsistence and system: the ecology of small-scale social formations.

White and his students (and his students' students) have been developing models that incorporate the patterns of relationships into descriptions of social formations.

Ever since the earliest days of colonialism, however, capitalism has developed long-standing mechanisms to integrate such recalcitrant social formations into the global system of production and distribution.

Social Formations of Early South India, OUP, 2009.

Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, (Macmillan Publishers, Delhi, 1985).